Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415926751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str.

Nancy Shoemaker

Opis

Clearing a Path offers new models and ideas for exploring Native American history, drawing from disciplines like history, anthropology, and creative writing making this a must-read for anyone interested in the history of indigenous peoples.

Spis treści

Introduction by Nancy Shoemaker Stories Chapter 1. Oral History, Narrative Strategies and Native American Historiography: Perspectives from the Yukon Territory, Canada by Julie Cruikshank Chapter 2. The Story of America: A Tribalography by LeAnne Howe Categories of Analysis Chapter 3. Categories by Nancy Shoemaker Chapter 4. Some Women are Wiser Than Some Men: Gender and Native American History by Gunlog Fur Political Economy Chapter 5. Marxism and Historical Materialism in American Indian History by Patricia C. Albers Chapter 6. Primary Sources: Indian Goods and the History of American Colonialism and the Nineteenth-Century Reservation by Jacki Thompson Rand Tribal Histories, Indigenous Histories Chapter 7. Keep Your Thoughts Above the Trees: Ideas on Developing and Presenting Tribal Histories by Craig Howe Chapter 8. Life Proceeds From the Name: Indigenous Peoples and the Predicament of Hybridity by James F. Brooks Notes on Contributors Index

O autorze

Nancy Shoemaker, Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, is the editor of Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women and the author of American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century.